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by kshacker 5y ago
Fantastic reading, although from 2013 it seems. Never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing.
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by kshacker 5y ago
You mean without Amazon, we would not be buying at Whole Foods for example? You mean there are net new jobs not just jobs that may have been lost in my company? I understand Amazon's benefits, and I know someone else may not have execu
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by kshacker 5y ago
Just because something took 5 years last time does not mean it should take the same this time. - Our SOP should be better to analyze the information. - Given the magnitude of the problem, more eyes should be on it - tools and technologies s
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by kshacker 5y ago
Pone may not be a word but pre and post should ideally be quite obvious and self sufficient qualifiers if standardized. And then I remembered the word preposterous, enough said.
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by kshacker 5y ago
It is not a snapshot of then when the issue happened, but I would equate it to https://www.apple.com/leadership/
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by kshacker 5y ago
Probably meant on the lines of EGOT (life) rather than grand slam (same year)
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by kshacker 5y ago
The only problem with this news is that the virus does not stop mutating. In my reading, I saw a BBC news discussing the double mutant virus as of March 24/25, 2021. I am sure it has existed for even longer, which means it has been mut
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by kshacker 5y ago
While the first lockdown may not have been popular, the top 3 reasons for the second wave were 1) muddled message from the top with massive election rallies and no one wearing masks, 2) the religious kumbh congregation was allowed to proc
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by kshacker 5y ago
BTW it is not 'exactly' September 30, it is usually last Saturday in September. So it does not even align at a 'calendar month' boundary.
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by kshacker 5y ago
Absolutely. Cupertino, Vancouver, Austin, Research Triangle and many more I guess.
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by kshacker 5y ago
What happened to Brazil from being 1/4 of the BRICs countries a couple of decades back. I know Bolsonaro does not have cred in American media but was the system just a house of cards?
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by kshacker 5y ago
"Survives first freezing night" == Is this just sensationalism? Should NASA not have a good estimate of what the chances of survival are? Maybe it is the media, maybe it is the need to fill columns (like the old days) but I would
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by kshacker 6y ago
So is the opportunity cost 6 days of outage or maybe 0.2 days since most of the traffic was just delayed rather than Re-routed? Also I am not a lawyer, but if I were one, I would wonder if there have been previous outages like this and how
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by kshacker 6y ago
Just curious. If someone were to start today, with today's computing power and knowledge of computers, how long would it take? The answer to this can tell how easy it may be to create a similar problem today.
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by kshacker 6y ago
The 'difference' is action vs inaction. I do not know what the consensus is, but we see this drama every 6 months. If they just said 'we are not going to do it', it would be one thing, but we have been having this charad
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by kshacker 6y ago
EU and US: They have both been talking about it in spurts, and they do wake up every ~6 months when the time changes, but no serious action anywhere.
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by kshacker 6y ago
Talking of cultural limitations and extending them to other examples, what if I am able to work 6 days? Can I do 7 hours on 5 days and 5 hours on the 6th to make up the 40? Or how about I work just 35 hours a week? Why would I do that? ...
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by kshacker 6y ago
4) lower infant mortality and in general better healthcare - think about it
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by kshacker 6y ago
It is not a 'broken mess'. It is an 'engineered mess'. The difference is in intent.
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by kshacker 6y ago
The challenge is the price. I call and cancel every year, and then renew in the same phone call since they finally offer me 8 bucks a month (and then bump it to 15 after a year). With Apple the cheapest option I see is 14.99, so even though
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by kshacker 6y ago
Great points and I will add: It is easy for a thousand engineers to train in Bay Area and move elsewhere. But could another locale train a thousand engineers to be ready to employed in the Bay Area companies? In many cases, the value (initi
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by kshacker 6y ago
I am more interested to know if they closed a lot the day many brokers blocked buying shares? ... so all the buys could have gone to Melvin at a price under 200 rather than over 300.
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by kshacker 6y ago
Well this has been going around on the reddits today. See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI > Says Cramer: What's important when you're in that hedgefund mode, is to not do anything remo
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by kshacker 6y ago
But people are not being allowed to purchase stock as they want. Robinhood now allows you to buy a grand total of 5 shares of GME.
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by kshacker 6y ago
> Someone was bidding up $50 puts expiring in 3.5 weeks and buying contracts today, while the shares were in the mid-300s. That's insane implied volatility. Because the higher you are, the closer you are to a crash. Peaks take time
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by kshacker 6y ago
Sometimes it is connectedness. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzCcVGbO9rw - Interview with Raghuram Rajan, who was the Governor of Reserve bank of India, was chief economist of IMF, and now a professor in US https:&#x
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by kshacker 6y ago
I did not want to speculate, but when I think of someone wanting to humiliate and embarrass, the first name that came to mind was "IT cell". But one of my friends said, the "IT cell" usually sends rape threats, they are
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by kshacker 6y ago
I paid a buck when I got whatsapp, I see my first chat backup from October 2012 :) I did so because my friends were on whatsapp, and I think all of us would have paid a buck a year if that's what the model evolved to. Unfortunately, th
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by kshacker 6y ago
Any state can choose to go back to standard time today ... without any approval from the Feds because that is codified in law.
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by kshacker 6y ago
Thanks. I know. Probably this exercise is just making up my mind during the holidays :)

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